| St Bridget - throwaway | |
| Posted by: bearcat 04:34 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
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| I was thinking how Mame's "St Bridget" is its first song, but could not be called its opening number. and then I got to thinking what other first songs of musicals are small and brief and wouldn't get much (any) outside life from that of the show I am not talking about "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'" which was part of OK's structure to open quietly and unfold, or "Good Morning Good Day" (She Loves Me) which establishes the rhythm of the show and the relationships among the shops' clerks. "Tell Me Why" from South Pacific counts, altho it introduces the children, and with childlike simplicity conveys the complicated theme of loves' fatality to follow what else could be included on this list?... "May We Entertain You" is performed as a throwaway (all that dialogue and interruptions by Rose) but of course gathers significance as the show unfolds any others...? |
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